Anita [singing]
A boy like that who'd kill your brother;
Forget that boy and find another.
One of your own kind, stick to your own kind.
A boy like that will give you sorrow;
You'll meet another boy tomorrow.
Scenes with Anita
11 scenes Anita 
When I look at Chino, nothing happens.
Anita Well, what do you expect to happen?
I don't know. Something. What happens when you look at Bernardo?
Anita It's when I don't look that it happens.
My brother is a silly watchdog.
Ah, my sister is a precious jewel.
Anita What am I, cut glass?
Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria...Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed.
Anita [To Maria]
He's the old married woman. [To Bernardo] You know, she has a mother. Also a father.
They do not know this country any better than she does.
Anita And you do not know it at all. Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now.
Puerto Rico is in America now.
Anita Sometimes I don't know which is thicker. Your skull or your accent.
Anita I mind your nose and your head broken...Sure. They used Maria as an excuse to start World War III.
It is more than that.
Anita More than what? She was only dancing.
With an American. He was really a Pollack.
Anita Says the Spic.
You are not so cute.
Rosalia That Tony is.
Consuelo And he works.
As a delivery boy.
Anita And what are you?
An assistant.
Si. And Chino makes half of what the Pollack makes.
Anita Oh, here comes the whole commercial. 'Your mother's a Pole. Your father's a Swede. But you were born here. That's all that you need. You are an American.' When I think of how I thought it would be for us here, we came like children, believing, trusting.
Girls
[singing]
I like to be in America, OK by me in America, Everything free in America
For a small fee in America.
Anita Buying on credit is so nice.
One look at us and they charge twice.
Rosalia I'll have my own washing machine.
Indio
What will you have, though, to keep clean?
Girl
[singing]
Industry boom in America.
Boys
Twelve in a room in America.
Anita Lots of new housing with more space.
Lots of doors slamming in our face.
Anita I'll get the terrace apartment.
Better get rid of your accent.
Anita Life can be bright in America.
Boys
If you can fight in America.
Girls
Life is all right in America.
Boys
If you're all white in America.
Girls
Here you are free and you have pride.
Boys
Long as you stay on your own side.
Girls
Free to be anything you choose.
Boys
Free to wait tables and shine shoes.
What rumble?
Anita Oh, well, uh, 'Nardo's Sharks and those boys at the dance.
They fight each other tonight?
Anita They don't play patsy.
Why must they always fight?
Anita Well, you saw how they dance, like they got to get rid of something quick. That's how they fight.
To get rid of what?
Anita Too much feeling, and they do get rid of it. Boy, after a fight, that brother of yours is so healthy.
Anita And you still don't know. He is one of them.
No, Anita.
Anita Yes.
Anita Bernardo was right. If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, I'd walk by and spit on you.
Go on and go. Don't tell Chino that Tony's hidin' in the cellar.
Anita Don't you touch me! I got a message for your American buddy. You tell that murderer that Maria's never going to meet him. You tell him that Chino found out about them and shot her. She's dead.
When do you kids stop? You make this world lousy.
We didn't make it, Doc.
Get out of here.
Anita [sings]
Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion,
Let it sink back in the ocean.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
Always the population growing
And the money owing,
And the sunlight streaming
And the natives steaming.
I like the island of Manhattan,
Smoke on your pipe and put that in!
Girls
[sings]
I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America!
Anita [sings]
Buying on credit is so nice.
